So, with the URC taking a break, the Ospreys welcome English Premiership Champions, Leicester Tigers to the Swansea.com stadium. This is the start of the extremely busy Christmas period that will see the Ospreys play 7 games in 6 weeks. The Ospreys will need to be able to call on their Welsh internationals if they are to have any hope of matching the power of the Tigers. The Ospreys are really on a hiding to nothing in this group as they also have to face French Champions Montpelier.
As long as everyone is fit and recovered from the Autumn internationals and the SA trip, I would expect the squad to look something like this...
G Thomas N Smith S Parry S Baldwin T Francis T Botha A Beard AWJ R Davies J Morgan J Tipuric (c) M Morris E Roots
R Webb RMW J Walsh O Williams/D Edwards K Giles G North J Hawkins A Cuthbert M Nagy one from M Collins M Protheroe L Morgan TTW
with a starting team of -
G Thomas S Baldwin T Francis A Beard AWJ J Morgan J Tipuric E Roots
R Webb J Walsh K Giles G North J Hawkins A Cuthbert M Nagy
DIscuss
I do wonder how fair it is to judge Booth when he has had no say in the squad he has? Nobody previously has been able to do anything with that squad so why should he? Post the world cup and the end of the season we know there will be a lot of movement (as traditionally there is), especially with the amount of players across the regions who will be out of contract.
Wouldn't it be better to see what squad he can put together and see what results he can get from that?
With the budget cap in England starting to bite and the lack of knowledge about the welsh regioins future funding I should think a lot of players are worrying about their futures at this time!!!